Our Get Real! book group focuses on really great non-fiction of all kinds: memoir, history, comedy, creative non-fiction, and more! Get Real! meets once per month at Hive at 840 Custer and is led by Adrienne Edwards and Maria Critelli. 

Purchase books through our page at Bookshop!

FAQs

What if I don't finish the book in time for the book group meeting? No worries! Although you might experience some spoilers in the conversation, we'd miss you if you didn't show up for book group night!

Will there be snacks? YES! GET REAL! co-host Maria is well known for bringing delicious treats; sometimes, she even makes them 'match' the book!

Why ask for donations upon registration? Hive Center for the Book Arts is a book and literary arts non-profit organization---we depend on donations--as well as course/workshop registrations and event fees---to keep our lights on, and are grateful for your support!

Many writers and artists keep notebooks where ideas go to die. But what if the notebook was the goal? We’ll investigate what it means to commit to a notebook as an object, activity, and space all of its own, and not a tool for some project that never materializes.

Open Studio: Writer’s Block

Make time for your writing. We’ll spend a few minutes getting to know each other, and then we’ll spend the rest of the time in silent writing time together. We don’t share what we’ve worked on, but we do support each other in the work.

OPEN STUDIOS

Our Open Studio sessions offer you dedicated time and space to work on your book arts projects. You get to choose what you’re going to work on during each two-hour block, and you can help yourself to a small assortment of snacks, coffee, tea, and sparkle water.

These sessions are non-instructional time, meaning you work independently but in community with others.

Sign up for a single session or a whole bunch!

Do you have a creative project you’d like to workshop? Join a small group of writers and artists exploring what happens when art meets its audience. We meet regularly — you can register for all sessions or just a few. In order to give deep and detailed feedback, we limit the number of presenter spots in each session, but anyone can join to be a responder. When it’s your turn to present, bring a piece of visual art, music, writing…. any creative project you are working on, and the group will reflect on and ask meaningful questions of the work you’ve presented. Trust us: good feedback doesn’t have to be hollow, brutal, or boring. You’ll leave with greater clarity on your work, and a renewed enthusiasm to continue working on it. Open to everyone.

Be the spookiest skull on the block this season with this light-up mechanical calavera. You will build one of your own using a kit of pre-cut paper pieces and circuitry components. Enjoy a little play with both paper engineering AND electrons this Halloween!

This class includes a kit that provides pre-cut paper pieces and various circuitry components. Kit fee is included in the price of the class.

Learn bookbinding skills, techniques, and vocabulary in this beginning bookbinding workshop.

We'll talk about paper and bookbinding tools and make a few simple book structures, which will allow participants to get a decent start on their bookbinding journey.

Note: This workshop is for beginners, and is a prerequisite for our more elaborate book structure workshops.

Come on over to 840 Custer for Hive Happy Hour! We're building community through letter-writing. Sit and write a letter to an old friend, write a few postcards to new friends, get those thank you notes written, write a letter to the editor of a newspaper... whatever you'd like. 

Each Hive Happy Hour features great conversation, a glass of wine or seltzer,  a nibble of something, and community. We'll have some stationary and notecards you can use, or bring your own. 

$10 includes one glass of wine or seltzer, awesome conversation, and however many letters you would like to write.

Though Hive Happy Hours are from 4-6 pm, you can come in and out, but an RSVP is necessary.

This class will experiment with translating film techniques (close-ups, jump cuts, panoramas, tracking shots) into grammatical and structural choices on the page. The game is how to move through language with a visual orientation, and what those choices create in the writing.

See Jenny talking about the class here.